Cursive Vawu 2 is a bold, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, social media, greeting cards, casual, energetic, friendly, handmade, playful, handmade feel, brush lettering, informal warmth, expressive motion, brushy, looping, textured, expressive, organic.
This font has a brush-pen script look with a pronounced rightward slant and lively, pressure-driven strokes. Letterforms are compact and vertically oriented, with narrow proportions, tight counters, and a slightly irregular baseline rhythm that reinforces the hand-drawn feel. Strokes show visible texture and tapering at entries and exits, with occasional ink-like buildup on curves and joins. Uppercase forms are simplified and gestural, while lowercase letters use frequent loops and soft terminals, creating a continuous, flowing texture in words even when connections are not perfectly uniform.
Best suited for short-to-medium display copy where a handmade, brush-script voice is desired—such as posters, product packaging, café or boutique branding, social graphics, and greeting-card style messaging. It can also work for pull quotes and titles when generous size and spacing preserve the lively stroke detail.
The overall tone is informal and upbeat, like quick marker lettering or a hand-lettered note. Its energetic movement and textured strokes give it a personable, crafted character that feels approachable rather than polished or formal.
The design appears intended to emulate fast, confident brush lettering with natural stroke variation and a slightly imperfect, human cadence. Its narrow, slanted construction and looping cursive structure prioritize expressive word shapes and visual momentum over strict uniformity.
At display sizes the textured edges and stroke modulation read clearly and add character; in dense settings the narrow forms and tight internal spaces can make similar shapes (especially in the lowercase) feel busier. Numerals follow the same handwritten rhythm, with rounded, slightly quirky forms that match the script texture.